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RANCHI: Jharkhand High Court has allowed a lower court to hear cases against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for his alleged remarks against north-Indians, rejecting the leader's plea to transfer the case to itself or Mumbai High Court. Justice Amersehwar Sahay, who reserved his order on Thursday, gave permission to the court of chief judicial magistrate, Jamshedpur, yesterday to hear the cases against Thackeray under IPC 298 (hurting one's religious sentiments) and IPC 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot)

AMRAVATI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Monday said his party would contest all the 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state, but he would not be one of the candidates. "Due to the kind of family environment I have come from, I believe in giving leadership and not in contesting elections. So, it is very much clear that I will not fight any election. But, MNS will definitely contest coming Lok Sabha elections," he said. Raj, who is touring Vidarbha, was addressing a press conference here.

JAMSHEDPUR: A non-bailable warrant of arrest has been issued against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Biharis by a Jamshedpur court. The court of 1st class judicial magistrate A K Tiwary yesterday issued the warrant and directed him to be present personally in the court on November 17. It also ordered that a copy of the arrest warrant be issued to the Mumbai Police Commissioner for its execution.

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray today condoled the death of Union Minister Gopinath Munde and described him as an 'outstanding' politician. "I had friendly relations with him (Gopinath Munde) from a long time. It feels very bad that an outstanding politician like him expired so suddenly," Thackeray told reporters here. "As far as Gopinath Munde as an individual is concerned, it is a loss to the politics of Maharashtra," he said. Thackeray said it was unfortunate that the senior BJP leader expired at a time when he got a big responsibility.

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena ( MNS ) chief Raj Thackeray today said that the boundary row between Maharashtra and Karnataka is an issue which could probably never be resolved. "So many years have passed and politicians from the state have never been serious about finding a solution to the 55-year old dispute. The issue has always been used for politics. Strikes and bandhs do not serve any purpose," Raj told reporters here today answering a query about the long pending demand that Marathi-speaking areas in Karnataka be included in Maharashtra.

NEW DELHI: Mumbai Police on Monday lodged an FIR against the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray following the charges of allegedly inciting violence in the city through his controversial remarks. Thackeray was also booked for allegedly disturbing harmony among different communities in the state. The action came days after the city was gripped under sporadic violence following Raj Thackeray's verbal assault against north Indians residing in Maharashtra.

MUMBAI: Unfazed by the widespread criticism for the violence against North Indians perpetrated by his cadre, MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday justified the attacks saying it was the result of a "build up" of anger among the Marathi people against the happenings over the recent past. Raj, who heads the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNA), also said that attempts to what he called harm Marathi culture from 'UP and Bihar' will not be tolerated henceforth. "I am not immature to understand what is happening around," he told a press conference at the party head office where Hindi and English news channels were barred.

MUMBAI: The 'insider-outsider' controversy has taken a new twist. The Thackerays ? Shiv Sena supremo Bal and his nephew and MNS founder Raj ? may be against migrants in the city, but they themselves do not originally belong to Mumbai, a professor has claimed. Like every other person in Mumbai, the Thackerays too came to Mumbai for jobs two generations ago and as such have no right to assault those coming to the financial capital in search of livelihood, said Hari Narke, professor at Mahatma Phule chair in Pune University, in an article published in Rashtravadi, the mouthpiece of the Nationalist Congress Party.

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray today blamed vested interests for rise in slums in the metropolis. "The people's representatives increase slums with the objective of bringing them under the purview of Slum Rehabilitation Act (SRA)," alleged Raj, after meeting Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Sitaram Kunte here. "The slums in the city do not rise on their own, they are deliberately increased," Raj said, while regretting that political parties were not acting tough against the errant corporators or MLAs.

MUMBAI: Advising actor-turned-politician Jaya Bachchan to stick to scripts written for her, Raj Thackeray on Thursday withdrew his agitation against Bollywood's first family. Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief announced at a crowded media meet on Thursday that the agitation over the "anti-Marathi" remark made by actor-MP Jaya Bachchan was being withdrawn considering an apology tendered by her husband Amitabh Bachchan. "Actually, it should have come from Ms Bachchan.